Caught over 40 today on the Brazos. These fish were looking up today. There was a lot of surface activity, so I thought they might eat a popper. First cast, fish ate, rod bent, and this went on for hours. This is a first for me, I don't think these fish knew they were crappie. Has anyone ever experienced this?

I have only seen this twice. Once at Buddy Stewart park on the north end of Pat Cleburne Lake, and once in a 20 acre pond that I grew up on in Joshua. Although I wasn't fly fishing, I can only imagine that it would've been a really enjoyable experience. In the five years I guided crappie for a full time living at Cedar Creek, I never saw it happen.

It's really awesome you got to see something so rare and had a fly rod in your hand at the same time.

Just so happened I moved back over the winter time and have been visiting the waters I grew up on quite a bit lately. It's been very rewarding to see how much I was missing when I was in high school, and could only fish what I could see with my eyes. The only hole I haven't revisited is the Brazos, which ironically, was the place I spent the most time on in high school and college, primarily the area between Lake Whitney and Pecan Plantation. Shoot me a PM if you want to join us sometime. I don't fly fish often, but I bet we could tackle some fly fishing records at the local DFW lakes.

Very nice! Interesting fly, sizable crappie! I've had a couple of times when I had crappie on a small lake behind my house in suburban Chicago rising to March Brown Comparaduns at sundown, but they were much smaller than yours.

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